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With the rcd-cnpt worai, tliat's shut 

 Witliin the concave of a nut, 

 Blown as liis tooth. A little moth, 

 Late fatncd in a piece of cloth ; 

 With withvcd cherries, mandnikcs' cares, 

 Moles' eyes ; to these the slain stag'q tearcs, 

 The unctuous dewlaps of a snaile. 

 The hrokc licart of a nightingale 



Orccoinc in musicke. 



This done, commended 



Grace hy his priest : the feast is ended. 



Reaumur has suggested, that it is probable that 

 water colours, of beautiful tints, might be obtained 

 from the fieces of the larva; of the common Clothes 

 Moth, which retains the colour of the wool they 

 have eaten with undiminished lustre, and mixes 

 easily with water. To get a fine yellow, blue, red, 

 purple, green, or any other colour, it would only be 

 necessary to feed the larvae with cloth of the tint 

 required.* 



But of all the benefits to be derived from the 

 papilionaceous tribes, none can equal that of silk, 

 from which is made the richest of dresses, for the 

 fair sex of almost all civilized countries, and which 

 adds a lustre to courts themselves ; and, whether 

 we estimate it on that account, or for the import- 

 ance of its manufacture, in giving employment to 

 thousands of individuals, it must be admitted as a 



• Reaumur, iii. 95. 



